milk-livered
1Milk-livered — Milk liv ered, a. White livered; cowardly; timorous. [1913 Webster] …
2milk-livered — [milk′liv΄ərd] adj. timid; cowardly * * * …
3milk-livered — [milk′liv΄ərd] adj. timid; cowardly …
4milk-livered — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective : cowardly, timorous milk livered man, that bear st a cheek for blows Shakespeare …
5milk-livered — adj cowardly, pusillanimous, poltroon, caitiff; weak kneed, Sl. chicken, Sl. gutless, skittish; faint hearted, chicken hearted, lily livered, chicken livered, Inf. mousy; sniveling, cringing, skulking, quailing, cowering; timid, timorous, shy,… …
6milk-livered — a. Cowardly, timorous, white livered …
7milk-livered — adjective Date: 1606 archaic cowardly, timorous …
8milk-liv|ered — «MIHLK LIHV uhrd», adjective. cowardly; white livered: »Milk liver d man! That bear st a cheek for blows (Shakespeare) …
9lily livered — Synonyms and related words: afraid, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, craven, daunted, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, funking, funky, gutless, henhearted, intimidated, milk livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, overtimid,… …
10soft — Synonyms and related words: Mickey Mouse, accented, accepting, adoring, affectionate, afraid, alveolar, anemic, apical, apico alveolar, apico dental, articulated, assimilated, asthenic, at peace, baccate, back, balmy, barely audible, barytone,… …
